Sam Mousa is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience designing application architectures, managing servers, and turning complex data collection workflows into productized platforms. Based in Eindhoven, he founded and led multiple ventures (Collecthor, MarketFlow, BeFound) that blend real-time data integration, visualization and analytics for customers across research and commercial domains. A hands-on engineer, Sam contributes to major open-source PHP projects—improving stability and test coverage in Yii2, Psalm and Docker PHP clients—and has strengthened testing and CI practices in Codeception and Pheanstalk. His work on internationalization for SurveyJS and contributions to the WHO COVID-19 app show a practical focus on cross-platform UX and global impact. Collected from academia to startups, his background in Business Information Systems and systems operations gives him a rare mix of product sensitivity and deep implementation discipline.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Business Information Systems, 70, Master of Science (MSc), Business Information Systems, 70 at Eindhoven University of Technology
VWO, NT + NG, VWO, NT + NG at Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen
Contributions:15 releases, 19 reviews, 130 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the codebase by addressing socket timeout issues. They implemented fixes for incorrect configuration names and implemented socket timeout functionality in `NativeSocket.php`. Additionally, the user added tests to verify the timeout behavior and ensure the socket implementation's reliability. The user also contributed to the testing infrastructure by adding and fixing tests.
Contributions:26 commits, 79 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to both the Ionic/React frontend and Flutter web builds of the COVID-19 app. They worked on integrating survey functionality using SurveyJS and CSS modules within the Ionic/React app. Additionally, they set up test and build flows for the Flutter application, including the implementation of a Flutter web build using Netlify. These contributions highlight a focus on UI development, build automation, and cross-platform compatibility for the application.
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Sam Mousa - Chief Technology Officer at Collecthor B.V